The agro market is coming around to this “novelty”. Many farm heirs are specializing in agronomy or agricultural engineering at universities and then returning to take over the family business with concepts and technologies of precision agriculture. On the other hand, PA still needs to disseminate more information about its benefits and better prepare farmers and agricultural workers for data-based agriculture.

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Every farmer knows that their greatest asset is their land. And when we talk about it, as important as the number of hectares is the productivity of those soils. After all, having thousands of hectares of gullies would be of no use, wouldn't it?

But unlike the huge erosion craters easily identifia...

The term “precision agriculture” gained ground in Brazil from 1995, following the importation of mechanical harvest equipment with productivity mapping systems - a revolution at the time for enabling a deep investigation of the spatial variability in the crops' productivity. 

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